Oil Dividend Stars Devon and Pioneer Face Tests After Payout Cuts

Some of the biggest outperformers in the U.S. energy sector— Pioneer Natural Resources and Devon Energy —cut their dividend payouts in the latest quarter as oil prices caused cash flow to slip. The cu...

Qualcomm stock drops more than 7% after poor outlook, months-long chip glut

Qualcomm Inc. shares fell in the extended session Wednesday following the chip maker’s poor outlook, and estimates of about two months or more of inventory it needs to clear in its core business. Qual...

Fisker details sales ramp, says Ocean SUV production set to start this month

Fisker Inc. late Wednesday reported a quarterly loss that was wider than Wall Street expected, but kept some of its milestones unchanged, including the start of production of its electric SUV, and gav...

SoFi stock gives back its post-earnings gains, with one analyst highlighting its ‘polarizing’ nature

SoFi Technologies Inc. is a “polarizing” stock, according to a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analyst, and that can perhaps be seen in its recent price movement. The stock was up as much as 18.9% Tuesday...

Tupperware stock craters after company warns its debt burden may force it out of business

Tupperware Brands Corp. stock tumbled 41% Wednesday, after the maker of food storage products missed third-quarter earnings expectations, warned it may go out of business, and conceded that some of it...

This oil company is America’s hottest stock. Why won’t its CEO pump more oil?

Vicki Hollub’s Occidental Petroleum controls the biggest piece of the most important area for oil production in the United States. Not so long ago, an oilman in a position like that—and it would’ve be...

SoFi Stock Leaps on Narrower-Than-Expected Loss and Revenue Beat

SoFi Technologies was surging after posting a narrower-than-expected third-quarter loss and revenue that exceeded forecasts.  SoFi (ticker: SOFI), the financial-technology company, reported third-quar...

Berkshire Could Take a Big Storm Hit. Watch for Buyback News.

Berkshire Hathaway could suffer losses of $3 billion from Hurricane Ian and other weather events in the third quarter, but investors are apt to be more focused on the company’s investment activity. Be...

PayPal’s ‘once beloved story’ is ‘back in vogue’ despite some noise

Headed into PayPal’s third-quarter earnings report, there’s a lot of noise. The company faced backlash in early October for a policy change stating that users could be fined up to $2,500 for spreading...

ZoomInfo Shares Tumble on Concern Over Soft Billings

Business information services provider ZoomInfo posted better-than-expected third-quarter results, but the company’s shares are nonetheless trading sharply lower in late trading Tuesday, apparently on...

Amazon closes below $1 trillion valuation for the first time since 2020

The swift recent decline in Amazon.com Inc.’s stock has brought the company’s closing market value below $1 trillion for the first time in more than two years. Amazon shares AMZN, -5.52% fell 5.5% in ...

Shopify CEO Buys $10 Million of Stock in the Open Market

Shopify CEO Tobias Lutke disclosed in a Canadian securities filing that he bought $10 million of the e-commerce software company’s shares on Monday, a week after the company reported its third-quarter...

Are older workers getting ‘quiet-fired?’

Here’s a strange paradox regarding older workers: On the one hand, they’re 14% less likely to receive the highest annual performance ratings, according to Mercer’s Workforce Sciences Institute. But, t...

XPeng stock swings to a loss after drop in monthly deliveries, while other China-based EVs surge

The U.S.-listed shares of XPeng Inc. fell Tuesday after October deliveries were reported, to buck the rally in other China-based electric vehicle makers, which was fueled by glimmers of hope that Chin...

Qualcomm Stock Is Near an All-Time Low Valuation. Look Beyond the Short-Term.

Investors should look beyond Qualcomm’s short-term financial results when the maker of mobile processors and 5G wireless chipsets reports earnings Wednesday, a Bernstein analyst says. Qualcomm (ticker...

20 dividend stocks that may be safest if the Federal Reserve causes a recession

Investors cheered when a report last week showed the economy expanded in the third quarter after back-to-back contractions. But it’s too early to get excited, because the Federal Reserve hasn’t given ...

SoFi stock rockets as earnings deemed ‘outstanding’

Shares of SoFi Technologies Inc. were flying higher in premarket trading Tuesday after the financial-technology company posted results that were dubbed “outstanding” by one analyst. Though the company...

Pfizer’s Earnings Are Tuesday. What to Watch.

Pfizer is set to report its earnings on Tuesday, a week and a half after an executive told investors that the company was considering a list price for its Covid-19 vaccine of between $110 and $130 per...

GameStop stock soared, then fell all the way back down, in biggest price reversal since May. But why?

Something strange happened to GameStop Corp. GME, +0.50% stock on Monday. Minutes after the opening bell rang out on the New York Stock Exchange, both the price of the company’s shares and trading vol...

Cash key for Chevron and Exxon Mobil as Truist raises stock price targets

Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp.’s strong cash positions have prompted Truist Securities to raise its price targets for the oil and gas giants, as the stocks of both companies rallied toward fresh ...

Apple and Microsoft market caps reached their largest spread on record — at roughly Tesla’s entire valuation

The divergent performances of Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in the wake of their latest earnings reports widened the spread between the two companies’ market values to the largest on record at more t...

Argo Blockchain shares collapse as planned fundraising falls through

Argo Blockchain PLC shares fell Monday after it said it no longer expects to carry out a share subscription with a strategic investor, and warned it would need to complete further financing to avoid c...

The S&P 500 can get to 4,150 before ‘reality sets in,’ says Morgan Stanley’s normally bearish top strategist

We’re almost through one of the most feared months of trading, which as it turns out, is set to deliver the best return for the Dow industrials since 1976, and best month since July for the S&P 50...

Big Pension Sells Apple, Block, and Estée Lauder Stock. Here’s What It Bought.

A big Dutch pension recently disclosed material changes in some of its largest U.S.-traded investments. Pensioenfonds PNO Media sold positions in Apple (ticker: AAPL), Block ( SQ ), and Estée Lauder (...

Adidas Bails From Yeezy. Why That Packs a Punch.

Times are tough at Adidas The German company has too much inventory and falling China sales. It’s slashed guidance, and earnings ran about half what Wall Street expected. The stock is down by more tha...

Dividend-Paying Stocks Can Help Battle Inflation

Surging bond yields have been a pleasant addition to the toolbox of income investors after years of minimal fixed-income returns. But dividend stocks can offer crucial balance and additional income to...

AMD lowered the bar for earnings, but there is still intrigue in one result

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has already slashed expectations for its financial performance with a warning, but there is still some intrigue with the chip-maker’s earnings report. AMD AMD, +5.82% is sc...

Volkswagen and Porsche’s Earnings Don’t Make a Lot of Sense. The Numbers, Explained.

Text size Investors should ask themselves why Volkswagen is worth nothing when its stake in Porsche is backed out. AFP via Getty Images European auto makers Volkswagen and Porsche both reported third ...

Technology stocks tumble — this is how you will know when to buy them again

This has been a brutal year for Big Tech, as you can see in the chart below, with Meta Platforms META, +1.29% leading the way. Shares of the Facebook holding company plunged 26% on Oct. 27, bringing t...

Apple’s Stock Buyback Pace Hits Record $25.2 Billion

Text size Apple has been astonishingly aggressive in buying back its own stock. Getty Images Almost five year ago, Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri said on an earnings conference call that t...

Ford Expects a Profit Rebound. What Wall Street Is Saying.

Ford Motor expects a big fourth quarter, bouncing back from supply-chain-induced challenges experienced in the third quarter. Wall Street isn’t so sure things will turn as well as the company expects....

Stocks usually do well after the midterms. Not this time, forecasts BlackRock

So much for the safety of the tech behemoths, those supposedly friendly giants who may be relatively richly valued but you could still count on to buttress your portfolio. Poorly received results from...